Kiersten Mann has overcome all the hurdles that have stood in her way to inspire everyone around her. Kiersten, 14, of Ankeny, Iowa, is the Kid Captain for Saturday’s football game against Wisconsin. At...

In her six years of life, Quinn Stumpf has beat the odds to live and taught others a great deal. Quinn, 6, from Riverside, Iowa, is the Kid Captain for Saturday’s Hawkeye football game against the Northern...

After she finished playing outside one day, Harper Stribe’s parents noticed swelling in her cheek. Once she visited a pediatrician and an ear, nose, and throat specialist, she was referred to the UI...

As Kirk and Company return to Kinnick Stadium on Saturday, the Kid Captain program takes to the field once again as well for the start of the program’s 10th-anniversary year. Kid Captain is a partnership...

During Jessi Fasse’s 20-week ultrasound, a facial development abnormality was found in the fetus. The next day, Fasse learned her child, Hunter, would be born with a cleft lip and palate. Fasse and...

Kidney failure is no problem Landon Wilkerson’s “Kidney Grandma” couldn’t solve. After he was born, doctors thought Landon, this week’s honorary Kid Captain, wouldn’t make it a year without...

It only took one small accident to put an athletic 11-year-old girl’s life in a scary place. Laurel Schaul, this week’s Kid Captain of Springville, Iowa, was not sure she would ever be able to walk...

Ten-year-old Cooper Foster has had the time of his life as a Kid Captain. From meeting his favorite players to being on the big screen at the Homecoming game, he’s enjoyed it all. Cooper is this week’s...

Logan Manderfield — like many Iowans — loves the Iowa Hawkeyes. That’s just one reason Manderfield’s family says the 13-year-old from Waucoma, Iowa, is looking forward to the football game this...

Nothing, including hospital visits and surgeries, can bring down 11-year-old Leah McClain. By Gage Miskimen [email protected] This week’s Kid Captain has met every hurdle she’s faced with...

Earlier this week, Nicole Wheatley was on the phone talking about her daughter Hayden’s recent fight against cancer. While talking, she was interrupted by her two girls fighting in the background. “It’s...

For this week’s Kid Captain, life has become a waiting game to find out how a rare condition will affect him. Maddox Smith, a 9-year-old from Coralville, was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis, or NF,...